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The Lovely Lavinia

Object type

Museum number

2010,7081.1271

Title (object)

The Lovely Lavinia

Description

A pretty young woman in rustic dress, smiling towards the viewer, walking to right and carrying a sickle and a bundle of hay; a couple in the background cutting the hayfield; bundle and barrel in the foreground and cottage in the distance. 1784Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching

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Materials

Technique

Dimensions

Height: 352 millimetres

Width: 252 millimetres

Inscriptions

Inscription Content

Lettered below the image with the title, three lines of verse from Thomson's 'Seasons' in two columns 'Her Form was fresher than the Morning Rose, ... As is the Lily, or the Mountain Snow. // Vide Thomson's Autumn' and 'London, Publish'd as the Act directs, January 7th. 1784, by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map, Chart & Printsellers & Globe-makers, No. 53 Fleet Street.'

Acquisition date

2010

Acquisition notes

Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.

Department

Prints & Drawings

Registration number

A pretty young woman in rustic dress, smiling towards the viewer, walking to right and carrying a sickle and a bundle of hay; a couple in the background cutting the hayfield; bundle and barrel in the foreground and cottage in the distance. 1784 Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching